比特币披萨日：第一次现实加密货币购买的15年

星期四是首次已知使用加密货币购买现实世界商品的15周年。 laszlo Hanyecz。

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It’s not an official holiday – yet – but for many cryptocurrency enthusiasts “Bitcoin Pizza Day” is still special.

这不是一个正式的假期 - 但是对于许多加密货币爱好者来说，“比特币披萨日”仍然很特别。

Thursday marks the 15th anniversary of the first known use of cryptocurrency to buy real-world goods. The 10,000 bitcoin that software developer Laszlo Hanyecz paid for two Papa John’s pizzas delivered to his Florida home on May 22, 2010, were worth about $41 at the time. Today they’re worth $1.1 billion, as bitcoin hits record high prices.

星期四是首次已知使用加密货币购买现实世界商品的15周年。该软件开发商Laszlo Hanyecz的10,000个比特币为2010年5月22日运送到他的佛罗里达州住宅的两个Papa John's Pizzas付了约41美元。如今，随着比特币的创纪录高价，它们的价值11亿美元。

Several cryptocurrency companies are announcing promotions and other celebrations to mark Bitcoin Pizza Day. Bitget, a cryptocurrency exchange, announced that it’s giving away pizzas to more than 2,000 people at gatherings held around the world.

几家加密货币公司正在宣布促销和其他庆祝活动，以纪念比特币比萨日。加密货币交易所Bitget宣布，它将在全球举行的聚会上向2,000多人赠送比萨饼。

Here’s the backstory of Bitcoin Pizza Day:

这是比特币披萨日的背景故事：

Humble Beginnings

谦虚的开端

The first bitcoin was created in early 2009 by the digital currency’s still unknown creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. It started as a passion project for libertarian-minded computer nerds who wanted to create a digital payment system that didn't rely on a third party – like a government or financial institution – for transactions.

第一个比特币是由数字货币仍然未知的创作者Satoshi Nakamoto创建的。它最初是一个为自由主义者的计算机书呆子的激情项目，他想创建一个不依赖第三方（例如政府或金融机构）进行交易的数字支付系统。

Hanyecz was an early enthusiast and became active on an early bitcoin internet message board, offering technical advice on how to "mine" bitcoin more effectively.

Hanyecz是早期的爱好者，并活跃于早期的比特币互联网留言板上，为如何更有效地“挖掘”比特币的技术建议。

Central to bitcoin's technology is the process through which transactions are verified and then recorded on what's known as the blockchain. Computers connected to the bitcoin network race to solve complex mathematical calculations that verify the transactions, with the winner earning newly-minted bitcoins as a reward in a process known as mining.

比特币技术的核心是验证交易然后记录在所谓区块链上的过程。连接到比特币网络竞赛的计算机来求解验证交易的复杂数学计算，获胜者在称为采矿的过程中赢得了新砍伐的比特币作为奖励。

In the early days, enthusiasts could mine bitcoin through their home computers and Hanyecz accumulated thousands of the new digital asset. Nowadays, mining bitcoin has become a highly competitive field with multi-billion-dollar companies using specialized computers in entire data centers to acquire new bitcoins.

在早期，发烧友可以通过其家用计算机挖掘比特币，而Hanyecz积累了数千个新的数字资产。如今，采矿比特币已成为一个竞争激烈的领域，在整个数据中心使用专用计算机来获取新的比特币。

‘No weird fish topping’

“没有奇怪的鱼浇头”

In the early days, no one quite knew what to do with the bitcoin they were mining. On May 18, 2010, Hanyecz tried an experiment and posted a message offering 10,000 bitcoins for pizza.

在早期，没人知道如何处理他们正在采矿的比特币。 2010年5月18日，Hanyecz尝试了一个实验，并发布了一条消息，为披萨提供了10,000个比特币。

"I like things like onions, peppers, sausage, mushrooms, tomatoes, pepperoni, etc.. just standard stuff no weird fish topping or anything like that," Hanyecz wrote.

Hanyecz写道：“我喜欢洋葱，辣椒，香肠，蘑菇，西红柿，意大利辣香肠等。只是标准的东西，没有奇怪的鱼浇头或类似的东西。”

Three days later, Hanyecz wondered if he needed to up the price.

三天后，Hanyecz想知道他是否需要提高价格。

"So nobody wants to buy me pizza? Is the bitcoin amount I'm offering too low?" he wrote.

“所以没人愿意给我买比萨饼吗？我提供的比特币金额太低了吗？”他写道。

But the next day, Hanyecz said he'd successfully traded his bitcoin for pizza. Another bitcoin enthusiast from California had paid for the Papa John's pizza in exchange for the cryptocurrency, according to a book about bitcoin's early history, "Digital Gold."

但是第二天，汉耶克（Hanyecz）说，他已经成功将比特币换成了披萨。根据一本关于​​比特币的早期历史“ Digital Gold”的书，来自加利福尼亚州的另一位比特币爱好者付给了约翰·约翰的披萨，以换取加密货币。

"A great milestone reached," said another early bitcoin enthusiast on the message board congratulating Hanyecz.

消息板上的另一位早期比特币爱好者表示：“一个伟大的里程碑达到了。”

Tremendous growth

巨大的增长

It did not take long for bitcoin to take off after the first pizza deal. Bitcoin started getting more publicity and grew, thanks in part to the popularity of an online black-market site, Silk Road, which only accepted bitcoin.

在第一次披萨交易之后，比特币不久就起飞了。比特币开始变得越来越宣传并增长，部分原因是在线黑人市场网站Silk Road的受欢迎程度，该网站仅接受比特币。

By February 2014, with bitcoin trading at around $600, Hanyecz marveled at what the digital currency had become.

到2014年2月，比特币交易约为600美元，Hanyecz惊叹于数字货币的变化。

"I mean people can say I'm stupid, but it was a great deal at the time," Hanyecz wrote on the bitcoin message board. "I don't think anyone could have known it would take off like this."

Hanyecz在比特币留言板上写道：“我的意思是人们可以说我很愚蠢，但这当时是很多。” “我认为没有人会知道它会像这样起飞。”

Five years later, when bitcoin was trading as high as $11,000, Hanyecz reflected on what buying that first pizza meant for bitcoin.

五年后，当比特币的交易高达11,000美元时，Hanyecz反映了购买第一个比萨饼对比特币意味着什么。

"It made it real for some people, I mean it certainly did for me," Hanyecz said on the television show "60 minutes."

Hanyecz在电视节目“ 60分钟”的电视节目中说：“这对某些人来说是真实的，我的意思是对我肯定是对我的。”

Hanyecz has largely stayed out of the public spotlight in recent years and efforts to contact him by The Associated

近年来，Hanyecz在很大程度上远离了公众的关注，并努力通过相关的